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 *jects, his subjects being finished with microscopic exactness. Medals: 3d class, 1861; 2d class, 1863. Works: Two Cups of Oriental Agate (1857); Amethyst Vase (1859), Luxembourg Museum; Agate Vase on an Enamelled Pedestal, Onyx Pitcher, Turkish Carpet (1859); Crystal Vase, etc., from Louvre (1863), Luxembourg Museum; Fruit and Jewels (1864); Fruit and Jewels, Flowers and Jewels (1868); Rock Crystal engraved, Agate and Enamels (1874); Saxon Porcelain, etc. (1874), Count Wells de la Valette; Carved Wood, Bronze Head, etc. (1874); Crystal Vase with Bust of a Roman Emperor, etc., View near Puy de Dôme (1879); Cross with Crystals, etc., Cup attributed to Benvenuto, etc. (1880); Equestrian Statuette with Tapestry (1881); Royal Birthday Gift (1882); Enamels with Crystal and Grapes, Statuette representing Force, etc. (1883); Fruits and Jewels, Majolica and Flowers (1884); Objects of Ancient Art, Agate Vase and Fruits (1885). Works in United States: Objects of Art from Louvre, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New York; Objects of Art—Two Subjects, W. Rockefeller, New York; Objects of Art, T. E. Butler, New York; Crown of Louis XIV., B. Wall, Providence; Crystal Cup and Pansies, T. Wigglesworth, Boston; Flowers and Objects of Art, H. B. Hurlbut Collection, Cleveland; Vase of Flowers, C. Crocker, San Francisco; Art in the Louvre, W. B. Bement, Philadelphia; Articles of Vertu, A. J. Drexel, Philadelphia; Objects of Art, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Objects of Art, D. O. Mills, New York; Still-life, C. P. Huntington, New York; Still-life, C. S. Smith, New York; Objects of Art, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Flowers and Vase, L. Tuckerman, New York; Objects of Vertu, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia.—Larousse; Hamerton, Painting in France.

DESHAYS, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Rouen in 1729, died in Paris in 1765. French school; history painter, first instructed by his father, and then in Paris by Boucher, whose daughter he married. In Italy he was led to imitate Benedetto Castiglione. On his return he became a member of the Academy in 1758, and painted many good altarpieces for churches. Works: Prayer of St. Andrew, Flagellation of St. Andrew (painted for Cathedral of Rouen and engraved by Ph. Pariseau); Susanna (engraved by Nicollet under title of Resistance); Venus throwing Flowers on Body of Hector, Montpellier Museum; and several in Rouen Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École française; Gaz. des B. Arts (1868), xxiv. 258.

DESPORTES, ALEXANDRE FRANÇOIS, born at Champigneul, Feb. 24, 1661, died in Paris, April 15, 1743. French school; landscape, animal, and still-life painter; pupil of Nicasius Bernaert, a Flemish animal painter in Paris, whence, meeting with little success, he went to Poland, in 1695, acquired great reputation, and painted King Sobieski, the queen, and many nobles. On his return to France, after Sobieski's death, he painted chiefly hunting pieces. In 1699 he was received into the Academy, of which he was made chancellor in 1704 by Louis XIV., whom he accompanied on all his hunting expeditions. In 1712 spent six months in England, where his pictures sold at high prices. He continued to enjoy court patronage during the Regency and the reign of Louis XV. Works: Portrait of Himself (1699), Wolf Hunt (1702), Diana and Blonde (dogs of Louis XIV., 1702), portrait of a Huntsman (1704), Boar Hunt (1704), Game and Vegetables in Kitchen (1707), Game guarded by Dogs (1700), do. (1709), Game